--- title: Still counts as research.» Max's friend said the teacher said there… — The check that settles it · tree and pragmatics description: Still counts as research.» Max's friend said the teacher said there was no homework; Max checked the class website — there was. Who acts: friend, teacher, homework, Max. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (friend, teacher, homework, Max), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:451-the-check-that-settles-it.lesson:9 # text = Still counts as research.» Max's friend said the teacher said there was no homework; Max checked the class website — there was. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 451-the-check-that-settles-it.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Still still ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 counts count VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 3 as as ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 research research NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 5 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ 6 » » PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:::_ 7 Max Max PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nmod:poss _ _ 8 's 's PART POS _ 7 case _ _ 9 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 ccomp _ _ 14 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 15 expl _ _ 15 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 ccomp _ _ 16 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 17 det _ _ 17 homework homework NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 Max Max PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 checked check VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 class class NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 website website NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 24 — - PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 25 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 26 expl _ _ 26 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:conj 27 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **count** | present | | | | | still | as research | vn masquerade-29.6 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as research=Attribute | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | Max's friend | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | the teacher | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **be** *in a quote* | past | no homework | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **check** *in a quote* | past | Max | the class website | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent website=Theme | | 6 | **be** *in a quote* | past | | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:everyday:451-the-check-that-settles-it.lesson:9`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The check that settles it, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/451-the-check-that-settles-it/8/) - next →: [The check that settles it, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/451-the-check-that-settles-it/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/451-the-check-that-settles-it/)